Comments on: Earthcomber: Your smart phone marks the spot

A mobile map with WAP and download versions gives directions and locates hot happenings.

US centric 'Earhtcomber'
by gregthames June 8, 2007 7:59 PM PDT: Why 'in the world' call it Earthcomber if only available in US?; Like this Reply to this comment

Not too impressed
by Sovereign June 10, 2007 5:38 PM PDT: First I downloaded the software from here, and with Active Sync already running, as soon as I ran Earthcomber, it installed on my PDA (Windows Mobile 2003). I launched the program, and the map wasn't that impressive (I'm used to a program called Destinator, which I still use today). Once you have the program on your PDA, you have to go to their website, sign up, find your map (only New York is pre-installed), download Earthcomber Updater, install it on your PC, then sign-in on the program and it will then download your map (and hotspots etc) to your PDA.

The reason I chose to leave a response is because...

(1) in order to get directions, you have to have an internet connection... which really, if the maps are already on your PDA and the GPS works, why does it need an internet connection?

(2) It gives you the directions in text form. It didn't show me the map with my little X, and moved while I'm driving.

So in the end, 30 minutes later, I uninstalled it again

I highly recommend Destinator: it talks to you, moves with you in real-time, re-routes you if make a wrong turn, alerts you of turns prior and even tells you in which lane to stay, but it costs and lot of money and Earthcomber is free... guess you get what you pay for

~Sovereign; Like this Reply to this comment

Earthcomber mobile WAP works fine for me...
by Rick Weld June 11, 2007 2:45 PM PDT: Why are downloading the maps? You can simply go to Earthcomber's WAP site and maps come up in a sec. I love the WAP. You can get maps over the air, dude. You don't have to synchronize.

I too want Earthcomber to be world wide, as I travel quite a lot for business. But you can't beat this service as it's free. It's a way faster, easier search mechanism than Google search box. Ever type on your cell phone. No thanks, Frank.

Who owns these guys? Yahoo? Google?; Like this Reply to this comment